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Date:      Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:00:59 -0400 
From:      "Cameron, Frank" <cameron@ctc.com>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "'Dag-Erling Smorgrav'" <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Subject:   RE: Long username/password
Message-ID:  <604CC98C4E6BD311AEF900A0C9EA54E1878ACD@ctcjst-mail1.ctc.com>

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Is it possible to change a user from DES to MD5 and/or make MD5 the default?

(I recently noticed that my password on one of my FreeBSD boxes is
restricted to eight characters.  I wasn't sure what was going on; but, now I
realize that I must have mistakenly installed DES on the box.)

Thanks.

Frank

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dag-Erling Smorgrav [SMTP:des@flood.ping.uio.no]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:05 AM
> To:	Rashid N. Achilov
> Cc:	Kris Kennaway; freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	Re: Long username/password
> 
> "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru> writes:
> > I think, DES isn't default crypt to passwords.
> 
> DES *is* the default if the DES libraries are installed, unless the
> user in question already has an MD5 password (in which case the system
> will keep using MD5 every time he/she changes his/her password)
> 
> DES (the committer, not the library)
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
> 
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